Poor playback of TV Shows in iTunes

Hello.
I am having a problem with poor playback pf TV Shows downloaded from iTunes. Recently the Lost TV Show, Season 3, has been skipping in both Quicktime and iTunes.
I am running all the newest software.
I have a G4 PowerBook.
1.5 GHz PowerPC G4
768 MB DDR SDRAM
20 GB of free space on the Hard Drive
This computer is pretty new and should be able to handle this.
Is this a known issue? Is there a fix?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Tom

I have been on the chopped video trail now for months.
Thinking the issue was solved after I had a power supply replaced at the local genius bar.
The apple repair guy was convinced I had some bad RAM and he took it out.
My video was playing smooth as silk with the original 512 MB RAM.
However I wanted to have another Gig of RAM, so I purchased 1-Gig from Apple.
Installed it myself, Video still smooth with no problems.
About two weeks later the chopped playback returned.
I have not removed the new 1-Gig RAM to see if it is the culprit.
Update pending......

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